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The Philip Robinson Library is the main library for Newcastle University, and is located on Jesmond Road West. It was named after Philip Robinson, a bookseller in the city and benefactor to the library, in 1989. The subsequent £8 million bequest in the will of his widow Marjorie remains the largest sum donated to a UK university library. [6]
SITS:Vision, also known just as SITS, is a database application used for course and student management in further and higher education institutions, developed and maintained by the Tribal Group. It is currently used by roughly 70% [ 1 ] of the UK higher education sector as well as international institutions such as the University of Sydney and ...
In 1924 Alphonse Mingana, an ethnic Assyrian, made the first of three trips to the Middle East to collect ancient Syriac and Arabic manuscripts.The expedition was sponsored by John Rylands Library and Dr Edward Cadbury, the Quaker owner of the famous chocolate factory at Bournville, Birmingham, who Mingana had met through Rendel Harris.
Redbrick is one of the oldest student newspapers in the United Kingdom. First published as Guild News on 5 February 1936, its current name dates to 1962. [citation needed] One of three student publications at the university, the others being SATNAV (Science and Technology News and Views) and The Linguist, the paper was originally published alongside the student magazine The Mermaid; this ...
It was found by Professor John H. Plumb in the library of the then Marquess of Cholmondeley at Houghton Hall, Norfolk when he was working on a biography of Walpole. It holds the Guinness World Record for "most overdue library book." [5] The Microscope and its Revelations: William B Carpenter Professor Arthur Boycott (student) Hereford Cathedral ...
The Courier is edited by a number of section sub-editors who are all Newcastle University students. [24] The Courier also has a head editor - the Student Media Officer - who works full-time editing the newspaper. The role is a sabbatical officer role and is therefore elected by Newcastle University students for a one-year term.
Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) is a division of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, England.The centre provides teaching and research into issues of African development, culture, anthropology, sociology, politics, history, and the legacies of the African diaspora, particularly in the UK, the Caribbean, and North America.
Neil Bartlett - chemist, creation of the first noble gas compounds (BSc and PhD at King's College, University of Durham, later Newcastle University) [18] Sue Beardsmore - television presenter [19] Alan Beith - politician [20] Jean Benedetti - biographer, translator, director and dramatist [21] Phil Bennion - politician [22]